" CHAPTER XVIII. It wasn’t long ago that a girl went straight from the farm to her husband, just as soon as her period came and she could make babies. “That is your sister’s name. Earles said, “but this is rubbish. The commissionaire stood there, tall and imperturbable. ‘Too late by the time I realised to what a dunderhead I’d pledged my friendship. He hung precariously on the ragged edge, but he hung there. “Soon enough, John. This way, my dear—and— you’ll excuse my mentioning it, but a quiet blouse and a little chiffon, you know, will be quite sufficient. ” “Far away?” “I have no idea,” Anna answered. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. He fancied, indeed, that he beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have been mistaken.
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